Wernher von Braun was a public figure. His movements were followed by many people. It's hard to bluff about associating with him, especially if it means claiming he was someplace other than where he was commonly observed to be. Beginning in 1960, von Braun was the director of NASA's new George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. For ten years previously he had operated that facility under the flag of the U.S. Army. He would operate that center until 1970, when he was transferred to Washington DC.
So when you say he was "at White Sands in the 1960s," you have to be more specific. You have to explain how he was able to do that while simultaneously being very prominently located at Hunstville working on the very visible task of building the Saturn V. It is of course possible that he visited White Sands briefly at various times during the 1960s, but the historical record is undeniable that von Braun was not based in White Sands at any time after 1950.
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